1. TEXT AND TEXTUALITY.
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Hanks, W.F.
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TEXTUAL criticism , *LINGUISTICS , *ANTHROPOLOGY , *DISCOURSE analysis , *SOCIOLOGY , *ETHNOLOGY , *CONTENT analysis , *TRANSMISSION of texts , *SOCIAL sciences - Abstract
The article analyzes the organization and interpretation of text through selected linguistic, anthropological, sociological and critical approaches. The author focuses on the status of text as a sociocultural product and process, voicing in text, elements of textual organization, the relation between text and power in social contexts and several ethnographic text studies. Text, when used as a mass noun can be taken to designate any configuration of signs that is coherently interpretable by some community of users. Textuality, on the other hand, refers to the quality of coherence or connectivity that characterizes text.
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- 1989
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